![]() ![]() He subverted fantasy with the unstable universe of his Viriconium novels, won the Boardman Tasker prize for mountain literature in 1989 with Climbers, has built a reputation as a fine literary stylist with surreal novels and a host of short stories, and has set the tenor for much of modern British science fiction.įor many in the science fiction community, his 2002 novel Light is his masterpiece – Iain Banks hailed it as "a novel of full-spectrum literary dominance … a work of – and about – the highest order". He caught science fiction's New Wave at the end of the 1960s, working with Michael Moorcock, JG Ballard and Brian Aldiss to push the genre towards the avant-garde. "It needs constantly reminding that it isn't the centre of the world." Over the last four decades, Harrison has carved out a stellar career on the margins of a fair number of literary forms. ![]() A ny genre needs its contrarians, says the writer M John Harrison. ![]()
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